MIX09: Silverlight, Ready for Business

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After seeing the presenter’s attire the morning of his presentation, I had to watch this session. It’s too bad that they don’t show a picture of Ward.

Presenter: Ward Bell, VP Technology, IdeaBlade, Inc.

Presentation page:  https://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T69M, 26 minutes

  • Introduction
    • Silverlight is about glitz, but also about business
  • The Data Story
  • Silverlight Data Access Today
    • can’t go directly to database
    • WCF services
    • ADO.NET Data Services
    • DevForce (product from IdeaBlade)
  • It’s real, It’s now
  • Creating an application
    • Create solution
    • Build model
    • Write queries
    • Show it
  • Architecture
    • Server
      • database
      • Entity Framework
      • DevForce Server
    • Client
      • DevForce Entity Manager
      • UI/Presentation
  • UI
    • Using MVVM
    • Model
      • Business logic persistent state
    • View
      • Visuals
    • View Model
      • View state & responses
    • Persistence Service
    • Entity Manager
  • Demo
    • DevForce tutorial
    • Solution has 2 projects: web and Silverlight
    • Build ADO.NET entity model
    • DevForce Object Mapper
    • DevForce Pluralizer
    • Client-side LINQ
    • DevForce offers client-side cache
  • Model Explorer
  • Summary
    • One Model
    • Silver-LINQ, Ward’s name for Silverlight programming utilizing LINQ
    • Validation
    • Offline
  • Not a Toy!
    • WPF/ Winforms/ASP
    • Security
    • Scaling
    • Transactions
    • Testing
  • IdeaBlade